If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.
I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot
My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.
Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.
I was reading Agatha Christie as a little boy.
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas present, I called her Agatha, and I already have a cat called Hercule!
We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
When I first started out, I absolutely begged my agent to get me a Poirot audition, and my wish came true - I did a Poirot! I need to do a Marple to round it off.
The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.
I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
